Perry Wayne Renn was a 51-year-old Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer shot and killed on July 5, 2014, while responding to a report of shots fired near East 34th Street and Forest Manor Avenue. Renn and another officer encountered a man in a nearby alley; that man, identified as 25-year-old Major Davis Jr., opened fire with a semi-automatic assault rifle. Officer Renn was struck three times, taken to Eskenazi Health, and died of his wounds. Davis was critically injured in the exchange and taken into custody at the scene.

Renn was a 22-year veteran of the department and a U.S. Army veteran who had received the department’s Medal of Bravery twice. The shooting left the department and Indianapolis grieving the loss of a decorated officer. If anyone has information about the events of July 5, 2014, or observed activity near East 34th Street and Forest Manor Avenue that evening, please come forward.